Miskatonic University PressJerrold Northrop Moore said in the episode on Sir Edward Elgar (2004) in BBC Radio Four’s Great Lives:
Art is the imposition of form on experience.
He seems to be drawing on Alfred North Whitehead, who said in 1943 (Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead (1954)):
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment in recognition of the pattern.